2 posts down, 5 to go!!!

by Virgil

Dave and Kathy were at our house today and Dave wanted to test out his new Hi-Lift jack that he bought for his Jeep. Well, we got it into the backyard and used some scrap wood and a 5 foot long 2x2 inch piece of solid metal that the previous owners left in the garage to pull out two of the post footings from the pig fence. I originally ripped the fence out when we first moved in, but since the ground is rock solid, I hadn't had any luck at digging these out yet. We got two done, but it's going to take more energy and another day to finish the others. They are HUGE!!! Each was filled in with a 2 foot deep by 2 foot wide chunk of concrete. Each one has to be 100-200 pounds each. Now that we got them out, I'm also not sure how we are going to haul them to the dump.

Edit: I did a search online and found that concrete weighs approximately 100-150 pounds per cubic foot. That would make each post footing we dug out at least 300 and maybe up to 500 pounds or more.